Monday, June 16, 2014

Here’s the short version: The United States invaded Iraq in 2003,
claiming that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had both weapons of mass
destruction and connections to Al Qaeda. He had neither. Today, both
Saddam Hussein and the United States are gone from Iraq. In their place?
Al Qaeda.

I have a feeling that unfortunately
this is going to come in handy in the near future for knocking down
wingnut bullshit about how Obama "lost" Iraq.

Monday Extra: This is something I've been thinking about the last few days. Maybe I have a future in the State Department. At least if my garden didn't need some much work.

Secretary of State John Kerry cautiously signaled on Monday that the
United States would be open to cooperating with Iran militarily in Iraq
to beat back al Qaida-inspired fighters who pose an "existential" danger
to that war-torn country and may look to target Europe and the United
States.

In the interest of making lemonades
out of the lemons that George Bush turned Iraq into maybe we can at
least gain some rapprochement out of the situation. We've left big,
stinking piles of shit on Iran's Eastern and Western borders. Both of
our countries have a vested interest in seeing them cleaned up.

UPDATED: Fred Kagan and Wm. Kristol disagree with me, I'm feeling much better about the idea that we should work with Iran. What's President Obama got to lose? The RightWing Media Congressional Complex is going complain about whatever he does anyway. He doesn't have to run for re-election. Israel can have a non-obstructionist role if they like. Time to earn that Nobel, Barack!

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